What's so grand about TESC?

[Publius]

For what I want to do, which is obtain a Bachelor degree in Accounting, would it be best to go through TESC or EC? EC is cheaper by at least $1500... is there something I'm missing? I know that EC doesn't accept FEMA (or at least that's what I saw), but that's not a problem for me since I don't have any.

Does EC take TECEPs? I have planned two of those into my degree so far. What differences are there (besides general prices and stuff)?

The reason I'm only comparing these two is because COSC is out of the question since I'm 17 yrs old. It's my understanding that for both TESC and EC all you have to do is write a letter of appeal (someone correct me if I'm wrong here).

Any and all insight/suggestions/etc. is appreciated.

[sanantone]

TESC does not require that you take a capstone with them for most courses at the moment; and, accepting free FEMAs directly dramatically reduces costs. You can knock out a few FEMAs in a couple of days. Excelsior charges $390 per credit hour. The capstone, alone, will cost $1170. If you're looking to take several courses at TESC or Excelsior, TESC is actually cheaper with its Comprehensive Tuition Plan. TESC also accepts more tests and alternative sources of credit as upper level than the other two schools. TESC will even give UL credit to community college courses. Overall, TESC requires much less UL credit than the other two.

[Prloko]

Some people like that TESC is a state school which they perceive helps to avoide the negative stigma associated with online private schools (i.e. Capella, Kaplan, DeVry).

Also, I may be wrong, but I think TESC allows the English Comp and Freshman College Comp without essay where EC won't accept them.

[Prloko]

[quote=Publius]The reason I'm only comparing these two is because COSC is out of the question since I'm 17 yrs old. It's my understanding that for both TESC and EC all you have to do is write a letter of appeal (someone correct me if I'm wrong here).
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By the way, great job being so young and knocking out all those credits. I will be incorporating CLEPs/DSSTs into my daughter's high school education. If I could do it over again, I would've CLEP'd my first 60 and went to college. I really robbed myself of a great life experience (although the military pretty much made up for it).

[rebel100]

You have been given excellent advice. Ditto to what Sanantone said in particular.

COSC requires applicants to be 16 and have 9 credits

Application Basics
Applicants must be 16 year of age or older, and possess a minimum of 9 acceptable college-level credits. Our most successful applicants have earned a minimum of 60 college credits from regionally accredited institutions and eligible non-traditional collegiate sources. https://acorn.charteroak.edu/ics/Admissions/

Note that COSC accepts FEMA without additional cost similar to TESC. They do have both a cornerstone and a capstone course though and that brings the minimal cost very close to the others....but you can spread it out more.

Good Luck!

Reb

PS EC takes FEMA but requires them to be run through Frederick CC, that costs about $77/cr.

[clydosaurus]

I live in NJ so TESC is the obvious choice for me. In-state tuition is half the price. I also live close enough to the school that I could drop in and speak to someone in person if I needed to.

TESC might not hold the same clout as Rutgers or The College of NJ, but it is still very much regarded as a State school and totally does not carry the same stigma as the for-profit online colleges like U of Phoenix.

Not that is has happened, but I wouldn't be surprised if at some point under Christie's tenure TESC will merge with one of the other state colleges. In 2010, they proposed merging with Rutgers, but it was shut down. I wouldn't be surprised if it comes up again in the future. This isn't great news necessarily, but it might mean that down the road your TESC degree turns into a Rutgers degree, which would NOT be a bad thing at all.

[Publius]

I live in NJ so TESC is the obvious choice for me. In-state tuition is half the price. I also live close enough to the school that I could drop in and speak to someone in person if I needed to.

TESC might not hold the same clout as Rutgers or The College of NJ, but it is still very much regarded as a State school and totally does not carry the same stigma as the for-profit online colleges like U of Phoenix.

Not that is has happened, but I wouldn't be surprised if at some point under Christie's tenure TESC will merge with one of the other state colleges. In 2010, they proposed merging with Rutgers, but it was shut down. I wouldn't be surprised if it comes up again in the future. This isn't great news necessarily, but it might mean that down the road your TESC degree turns into a Rutgers degree, which would NOT be a bad thing at all.

The only way that would be a bad thing is if they discounted having a general transfer policy. That would be horrible. I doubt that would happen though...

[Lindagerr]

I doubt TESC and Rutgers merging is likely to come up again. I don't remember many people from either side thinking that was a great idea. I had a good friend (God rest his soul) who was a graduate of Rutgers Before it merged with all the other schools and he always thought that merge was a degradation of Rutgers. Many people (especially those who have huge student loans from B & M colleges) no matter what we say, will ever believe we work hard and learned as much to earn our degree in an "alternate" less expensive way. Those people will think we are degrading their hard earned degree by trying to be associated with their REAL college.

By the way I also went with TESC partly because I was in state and it was cheaper, my other reason was it had been around and I had heard of it for many years. I figured any college that was around when I graduated High School was really old :roflol: